Samsung was one of the first large electronics firms to launch smartwatches running Google’s Android Wear (now Wear OS), but it pulled back to focus on its own Tizen-based wearables. Now, long-time leaker Evan Blass says Samsung is switching back to Wear OS on an upcoming Gear watch.

While Google Glass utterly failed as a consumer device, its second life as an industrial tool makes sense. And eventually, full-bore augmented reality will be small and cheap enough to be implemented in glasses that don’t look different from what’s commonplace now.

Intel hoped not to repeat Google’s creepy Glass mistake when it revealed the Vaunt smart glasses earlier this year. However, Intel is already throwing in the towel; the Vaunt project is dead, and so is the entire division that created it.

Small and large companies are taking advantage of consumer technology to enable new models and empower people to monitor and manage their health and wellness. Here are our favorites looking to shake up the status quo.

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